apion
French, noun/a.pjɔ̃/
apion is spelled A-P-I-O-N (5 letters) and appears about once in every 31 million words in written French, the 177,898th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Apion is a French masculine noun meaning “a type of weevil (of the genus Apion)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Genre de coléoptère dont la larve est nuisible pour les légumineuses et d’autres plantes”.
What does apion mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinea type of weevil (of the genus Apion)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Genre de coléoptère dont la larve est nuisible pour les légumineuses et d’autres plantes.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of apion
- apions plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce apion?
- /a.pjɔ̃/
- \a.pjɔ̃\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is apion in French?
apion appears about once in every 31 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).